Detection device for bottles.



1,075,657, Patented 00111 11913.

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DETECTION DEVICE FOR BOTTLES.

APPLICATION FILED 111111.13. 191s.

ATTOR NEV UNITE STAT FTQ.

MATHIAS KROMIPIGEL AND JOHN HRADISKY, OF BRIEB, HILL, PENNSYLVANIA,

DETECTION DEVICE FOR BGTTLES! Application filed March 8, 1913.

Specification of Letters Patent.

To all who 17bit may concern Be it known that we, MATHIAS KROMPIGEL and JoI-IN Hnamsnr, subjects of the King of Hungary, residing at Brier Hill, in the county of Fayette and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Detection Devices for Bottles, of which the following is a speclfication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to a detection device for bottles, and the primary object of our invention is to provide a bottle neck with a novel device that can be positioned to indicate that a portion or the entire contents of a bottle has been removed.

A further object of this invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive and durable device that can be advantageously used in connection with bottles adapted to contain poisonous matter, the device being of such construction that when such. a bottle is refilled a person will readily detect the bottle as having once contained poisonous matter and consequently not use it for fear of deleterious results.

lVith the above and other objects in View the invention resides in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter specifically described and then claimed.

Reference will now be had to the drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a vertical sectional View of a bottle neck showing the device in an elevated position, Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the same in a lowered position, Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line IIIIII of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is an elevation of a detached device.

Further describing our invention in detail with reference to the accompanying drawing wherein like numerals denote corresponding parts throughout: 1 denotes a portion of a bottle having a neck 2 provided with an annular offset portion 3, adjacent to the end of the neck and intermediate the ends of said neck there is an annular interior shoulder 4.

The device 'used in connection with the bottle neck 2 comprises a tweezer-like member 5 made of a single piece of resilient wire bent to provide oppositely disposed extensions 6. Mounted upon the ends of the member 5 are the shanks 7 of substantially se1nicircular heads 8, said heads having confronting fiat faces 9 and beveled edges 10, these beveled edges providing openings 11 when the faces 9 contact, as shown in Fig. 3. The device is placed in the bottle neck 2 with the extensions 6 of the member 5 resting upon the shoulder l. In this position the offset portion 3 of the bottle neck provides clearance for the heads 8 and an ordinary stopper or cork 12 can be placed in the bottle neck.

When using the bottle the cork 12 is removed and the heads 8 forced downwardly until they engage the shoulder 1, at which time the extensions 6 are released by the walls of the bottle neck 2 and engage under the breast or body of the bottle, thereby anchoring the heads in the inner end of the bottle neck and in the position shown in Fig. 3 forming contracted openings 11 through which the contents of the bottle is discharged and the slow passage of the contents through said openings 11 will immediately indicate to the person manipulating the bottle that its contents are of such a nature as to be carefully handled, a similar inclication to the user of the bottle takes place when an attempt is made to fill the same, consequently the user of the bottle can soon detect the contents of the bottle or what the bottle once contained. The construction of the device is such that little or no attempt will be made to refill the same on account of the slow process of filling the bottle.

The device can be made of metal or a material not susceptible to a chemical action by the contents of the bottle, and we would have it understood that the shape of the heads 8 can be varied without departing from the scope of the appended claim.

What we claim is The combination with a bottle having a neck provided with an annular offset portion and an annular interior shoulder, of a tweezer-like shiftable member arranged in said bottle neck and having oppositely disposed extensions normally supported upon the shoulder of' said neck and adapted when said member is shifted to engage under the breast or body of said bottle, and heads carried by the ends of said member and normally extending into the offset portion of said bottle neck and adapted When said member is shifted to engage said annular shoulder, and Contact With each other said heads having fiat confronting faces and beveled edges, the beveled edges forming openings When said heads contact.

In testimony whereof We aflix our signatures in the presence of two Witnesses.

MATHIAS KROMPIGEL. JOHN HRADISKY. Witnesses:

JOSEPH J OEHMAN, W. G. HIGINBOTI-IAM.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

